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A friend of the murdered Laurie Boyd, who started a belated letter campaign to stop Boyd’s killer from getting paroled, is pleased to hear the killer will remain behind bars.

One man is dead after emergency crews responded to the scene of a riverside boat rescue Thursday afternoon after bystanders spotted a canoe capsized in the water. Boat rescue crews from Foothills Fire Dept.

There’s no way to know how long it could be before Okotoks sees the doors open on its first retail marijuana store.

Rural crime is holding steady, if not decreasing, say Foothills area RCMP. At a rural crime meeting at the Square Butte Community Hall on Nov. 8, Turner Valley RCMP Sgt.

Foothills residents could be looking at a 2.5 per cent increase on their taxes next year. MD council began discussing its 2018-2019 budget on Nov. 7 with budget and finance officer Bill Robinson.

It was a difficult harvest for Foothills area farmers. While some were lucky enough to get their crops off the ground before a month’s worth of wet weather hit in early September, not everyone was so fortunate.

Neighbourhood watch – there’s an app for that. As of Nov. 4, a new mobile application, Block Talk, went live in the MD of Foothills.

MD landowners are fighting a stop order against the berm they constructed on their property for flood mitigation.

A group of Okotoks gamers battled it out for 24 hours to raise money for charity. Brendan Rose and his team, I Cast Fireball, gathered together to play video games for 24 hours, beginning on Nov. 4 and playing through the night.

Last weekend the family and friends of Amy Sands honoured her weeks after the man convicted with manslaughter in her death was sent back to a federal prison for violating his parole for drug use.